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Botany

Sarah Holland-Batt

After the rain, we went out in pairs

to hunt the caps that budded at night:

wet handfuls of waxtips and widows,

lawyer's wigs¹, a double-ringed yellow.

We shook them out onto gridded sheets,

the girls more careful than the boys,

pencilled notes on their size and shape,

then levelled a wood-press over their heads.

Overnight, they dropped scatter² patterns

in dot-and-dash, spindles and asterisks

that stained the page with smoky rings,

blush and blot³, coal-dust blooms.

In that slow black snow of spores

I saw a woodcut winter cart and horse

careen off course, the dull crash

of iron and ash, wheels unravelling⁴.

All day, a smell of loam⁵ hung overhead.

We bent⁶ like clairvoyants⁷ at our desks

trying to divine the message left

in all those little deaths, the dark, childless stars.

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1 wigs
n.假发，法官帽( wig的名词复数 )
参考例句：
They say that wigs will be coming in again this year. 据说今年又要流行戴假发了。来自辞典例句 Frank, we needed more wigs than we thought, and we have to do some advertising. 弗兰克，因为我们需要更多的假发，而且我们还要做点广告。来自电影对白

2 scatter
vt.撒，驱散，散开；散布/播；vi.分散，消散
参考例句：
You pile everything up and scatter things around.你把东西乱堆乱放。 Small villages scatter at the foot of the mountain.村庄零零落落地散布在山脚下。

3 blot
vt.弄脏（用吸墨纸）吸干；n.污点，污渍
参考例句：
That new factory is a blot on the landscape.那新建的工厂破坏了此地的景色。 The crime he committed is a blot on his record.他犯的罪是他的履历中的一个污点。

4 unravelling
解开，拆散，散开( unravel的现在分词 )；阐明；澄清；弄清楚
参考例句：
Nail head clamp the unravelling of nail exteriorize broken nails and clean. 钉头卡钉，拆开钉头取出碎钉并清洁。 The ends of ropes are in good condition and secured without unravelling. 缆绳端部状况良好及牢固，并无松散脱线。

5 loam
n.沃土
参考例句：
Plant the seeds in good loam.把种子种在好的壤土里。 One occupies relatively dry sandy loam soils.一个则占据较干旱的沙壤土。

6 bent
n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的
参考例句：
He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。 We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。

7 clairvoyants
n.透视者，千里眼的人( clairvoyant的名词复数 )
参考例句：

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